Back in the good old days when sockets were made by military suppliers, they were designed well and made according to all the design details. Later, these good sockets got copied by manufacturers who didn't understand what details to copy, so they got progressively worse over the years. Fast forward to Chinese socket shaped objects. Their pins don't have the design subtleties, the quality materials or the special processes that were used by companies such as Cinch to make good sockets. Of course, old tube sockets are often oxidized if available at all. And good luck finding IN-18 sockets that are well made. You can buy machined socket pins that have enough 'give' to not crack the glass. They're not cheap. See Mill-Max.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 2:45 PM Audrey <tntmod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some people say ceramic sockets crack tubes at the pin and cause them to > go to air and that you should use bakelite sockets > > Some of my friends say they've lost tubes to it, some of them say they've > socketed countless tubes without issue. > > Ive got some ceramic sockets and some 9-pin digivacs and biquinary nixies > I'd rather not kill. So what's the deal? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/f6a89589-ace0-4dbf-b62b-b88bfe3aa8afn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/f6a89589-ace0-4dbf-b62b-b88bfe3aa8afn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAPbqtvc%3Dry2hJQxs-jz5owG1U_kRVi%3DWvyTanPuo870f8A5dGg%40mail.gmail.com.
